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suitably fetishizable packaging
Friday, June 14 2002Through experience I've learned that the amount of work required to organize a large MP3 collection isn't really worth my time. I'm convinced now that record companies can still make money in a world of public domain music simply by providing structure and organization (along with suitably fetishizable packaging).
It's wonderful that I have so much "free time" these days; otherwise my MP3 folder would be utter chaos. That said, once I have my MP3s nicely organized, they will remain that way and serve me the rest of my life. If I'm like most people, my musical interests won't change much between now and the day I die. Meanwhile, storage media will shrink away further to insignificance and someday soon I'll be able to carry all this music everywhere I go. Even if the RIAA manages to shut down internet file sharing, eventually there will be anonymous file sharing between PDAs in coffee shops and on subways. Some of that file sharing could take the form of automatically-fulfilled "wish lists": I'll enter some wishlist downloads into my PDA when I wake up in the morning, go mingle in some crowds for awhile, and come home to find most of what I wished for granted. Even so, at the end of the day I might still find myself craving some suitably fetishizable packaging.
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